Visual Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Visual Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Stencil in the centre of Athens14
A photographic essay on socio-economic organisation – temporary shelters in Kelowna, British Columbia (Canada)10
The Astronomer's Chair: A Visual and Cultural History8
On AI colourisation: algorithms, ancestry, and colour beyond the black box7
Images among images: a map scholar response7
The faces of Auschwitz: digital colourisation, ethics and the archive7
No heritage found on map: the vanishing villages of Hong Kong6
New species in the Mediterranean: a visual essay on human impact on biodiversity6
The patchwork method: on David Redmon and Ashley Sabin6
Tracking transitions: an ethnographic visual study of the manual sand miners in Bihar, India6
Naked modernisation: the rise and fall of the erotic humour magazines in 1930s Turkey5
Bounding an archiving: assessing the relative completeness of the Jacques Toussele archive using pattern-matching and face-recognition4
Design cards as visual interventions: visualising and visioning net zero futures4
Elements of a riot: forms of political violence in contemporary France4
In light of #MeToo: reconsidering the art/artist relationship for better futures4
Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color4
Dolors project: art-based polyethnography evoking contemporary rural mothering through photography, dance and chapbooks4
The distinctive reality of schizophrenia in Swallow Me Whole and HOAX Psychosis Blues : exploring comics and their narrative space3
Dressing and undressing Duchamp3
Neither spectacular nor ordinary: a visual essay on imaginations and homes in Beijing from 2007 to 20193
Facilitating Black identity and advocacy: creating cellphilms for reflecting on issues affecting Black students3
Living in post-Brexit Britain during the pandemic: how did it feel for EU citizens?3
Creating counter-landscapes: art-based research in two logistics parks in Frankfurt am Main and Kassel (Germany)3
Future City, 20213
Gentrification and changing visual landscapes: a Google Street View analysis of residential upgrading and class aesthetics in Hamilton’s Lower City3
Romaphobia and mainstreaming of nativism: visual representations of Roma during the Brexit referendum in the UK3
Prosody: an ode to the city3
La sociologie filmique: Théories et pratiques3
Black modernisms in the transatlantic world3
Editorial3
A pictured Africa: drawing as a visual qualitative research methodology for examining British African Diaspora imaginings of their ancestral ‘home’3
Visual framing in the German movements for gay liberation and against nuclear energy3
Rebel imaginings: street art in Yogyakarta, Indonesia3
Howard S. Becker and visual sociology3
A visual essay of everyday life at the Finnish-Russian border after (and before?) the Iron Curtain2
The social life of private thoughts2
‘Breaking the chains’: reflections on the making of an ethnographic documentary on human rights violations against people with mental illness in Indonesia2
Spaces in between: using the Zwischenraum to explore the archiving practices of young expats in Berlin2
Difficulties with diversity: reflections on representation in sandboxing studies2
Unfolding the entangled geosemiotics of technologically-mediated gated communities:Mountain View’s (2021) advertisement as a case study2
When the cannons roar, comics panels fall silent: on silent representations of traumatic events in Israeli comics and graphic novels2
Earthquakes, communities and heritage: Telling stories of resilience through co-designed immersive media2
A critical assessment of the Russian-language literature in the field of visual culture2
Elaborated images as decolonial praxis2
Pygmalion in the archive: the mythic desires of colourisation2
Survival and social support networks: visual narratives of labour market integration among highly skilled African immigrants in Quebec2
Remembering and forgetting: using photographs as social artefacts in an aged care setting2
Wake up, this is Joburg2
Social semiotic analysis of photographic portrayals of Iranian elders on websites2
Editorial2
Political storytelling of Ekrem İmamoğlu on Instagram during 2019 Istanbul mayoral elections in Turkey2
Using cellphilm-making as advocacy: adolescent girls’ access to reproductive health services in primary health care facilities in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal2
Being specific about ‘digital images’2
Cross-cultural visual communication at the Wanchin Church in Taiwan2
Home is where it happens: a visual essay on pandemic parenting for employed mothers2
Counter narrative of President Buhari’s narrative on Nigerian youths with visual images and texts on Facebook2
Decoding the symbolic storm fuelling Greek far-right politics: a visual essay1
The people are not an image: Vernacular video after the Arab spring1
Topologies of air1
Bridging memories: training the imagination to go visiting in Israel/Palestine1
The hidden messages concealed in the 1970s stamp series ‘Landscapes of Israel’1
Coming off fossil fuels: Visual recollection of fossil fuel dependency1
Introduction: Visibility, images, Palestine/Israel1
Corona de Flores; some visual issues of coronavirus1
Reimagining food systems and food futures: a visual approach1
Remembering Rob Boonzajer Flaes1
Other Lines: visualising shifting horizons and atmospheric pollution along the Wirral Peninsula1
‘It’s all about connecting’: using visual methods to surface the multisensory and more-than-human dimensions of health information1
‘Let us teach our children’: Online racism and everyday far-right ideologies on TikTok1
Editorial1
Reading Reisewitz’s Altamira: An Analytical and Evocative Photo-Study Altamira1
No selfies: the social world of autistic male adults as depicted in their everyday photographic practices1
From pages to posts: the evolution of memory-making from scrapbooking to Instagram1
Decoding visual culture1
Embracing new paths in visual research facilitation: opportunities, tensions & ethical considerations1
Embodying Art – How We See, Think, Feel, and Create1
Finding the local (meta)picture1
The whiteboard: visualising personal agency in a lockdown microcosm1
The 360 diary method in experiential education: using social media as a complementary method to interviews and audio diaries1
Editorial1
Where are the students?1
Miao traditional patterns: the origins and design transformation1
Affective atmospheres in Macau: from the sublime to the uncanny1
Performing for the camera: queer migration, sex work, and objecthood1
What is an image in the digital age?1
The time of the landscape: On the origins of the aesthetic revolution1
Everything to Play For: How videogames are changing the world1
Dirty pictures1
Embodying parkour’s visual subculture: ethos, style and the emergence of a visual habitus1
Interspecies intercorporeality and mediated haptic sociality: distributing perception with a guide dog1
Building culture: constructing visual continuity in Hangzhou before G201
‘There were days I felt empty’: care, affect, and graphic medicine1
Critical visual approaches to understand the complexities and contradictions of the city: introduction to the special issue for Visual Studies1
Sounding of the idols. Visual deception and religious images in Brazil1
Empty homes: filming homeownership in rapidly urbanising China1
The coloniality beneath the aesthetics: a study on the reclining female schema in modern Chinese photography1
Visual arts: imagining ashanzhaicity in twenty-first century China1
Imagining the city1
The image is a cure1
Editorial1
Gazing through the window: A participatory Covid-19-exhibition for a nation in crisis1
Rethinking fashion photography: reconstructing identities, decolonising bodies and resistance in postcolonial Morocco1
Juxtaposition and visualising the middle ground in the unequal city1
#EverydayNile Correspondences1
Moving boundaries: visual sociology meets border studies1
The eyes of scallops and the creativity of submarine animals: convergence and conflict in science, philosophy and art1
Emoji and social media paralanguage1
The baggage of representation: man with a red carrier bag searching for a signal1
‘All the good spots are already taken’: the visual properties of interior social sceneries0
The body of prison power0
Coral empire: underwater oceans, colonial tropics, visual modernity0
Human Flow: Stories from the Global Refugee Crisis and How Media and Conflicts Make Migrants0
We Know It When We See It0
The burden of the present in Gareth Brookes, The Dancing Plague0
Colourised histories, reading digital/analogue photography and film archives now0
Cosmopolitics of the camera: Albert Kahn’s archives of the planet0
Degenerate ecocinema: indexing entropy with drones0
Seeing a pandemic: how COVID changed urban spaces and places0
Delta voices of climate crisis: Community Digital Storytelling in Bangladesh and Vietnam0
Altered spaces: new ways of seeing and envisioning nature with Minecraft0
A study of light pollution discourse in Hong Kong0
The Persian painting and the Iranian Traditional Medicine0
Fabricating Lureland: A history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea0
Svalbard Railway (Rachel Tanur 2022 1st Prize)0
A sad tree: visualising ecological emotions through bodies in place0
What is an Image? Artists’ panel transcription, International Visual Sociology Association annual conference, 16 September 20220
Non-literary fiction: Art of the Americas under neoliberalism0
Framing urbanities: invisible/visible urban assemblages0
Masks and emotional distance: a visual study of human relationships in the Covid-19 pandemic0
Majoritarianism and digital rights: understanding Kashmir and the ‘Othering of Other’ in the context of India0
Participating and observing: Howie up close0
Preserving the ephemeral: A visual typology of augmented reality filters on Instagram0
‘What do we see when we look at people on the move’? A visual intervention into civil sphere and symbolic boundary theory0
The photography of José Gómez de la Carrera and the construction of the territorial image of the early Republic of Cuba0
From canvas to cyberspace: contemporary Tibetan art and the digital Tibetan identity landscape0
What can voice do? Combining narrative methods and participant-produced photography to explore contemporary cancer survivorship0
The media swirl: Politics, audiovisuality, and aesthetics0
‘Undressing the Icon/Visualizing the habitus.’ Series 1: Jean-François Clervoy (ESA/NASA)0
Heir to the throne: photography and the rise to presidency by politicians in Zimbabwe and South Africa0
If_I_Had_Let_Me, 20220
Interweaving artist-researcher-teacher identities: facilitating visitor-artwork interactions0
Shaping Roman Landscape: Ecocritical Approaches to Architecture and Wall Painting in Early Imperial Italy0
The place of poetics within documentary filmmaking: The art of fact0
Waste Not Want Not : art, recycling and community building in a Johannesburg creative collaboration0
Editors’ introduction0
Thinking with Sarah Kaufman’s Devil’s Pool0
Correction0
Story Poles (Solana Beach, California), 20210
Tracks and traces: Exploring the world of graffiti writing through visual methods0
COVID diaries: quotidian snapshots of life during the pandemic0
The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity0
‘I like working with my hands’: performative and embodied nostalgia among post-industrial blacksmiths0
Professionalism, privilege and publicity: representations of development cooperation in amateur photography and Finnish newspapers, 1968–19720
Mortevivum: photography and the politics of the visual0
The crisis of ugliness: From cubism to pop-art0
Does she still recognise you?0
Correction0
Seemingly innocent pictures. Visual representations of migrants and refugees circulating through the Czech Facebook nationalistic universe0
Multisensory approaches in migration research: reflections and pathways0
Semantic macro-structures and macro-rules in visual discourse processing0
Visualizing Empire. Africa, Europe, and the politics of representation0
The influence of Russian religious aesthetics on Russian animation0
Guest Editors’ introduction0
Warao queen: challenging beauty in Venezuela – the Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology 20200
From making visible to hiding. Visual representations of financial markets as tools of manipulation and active and living agents0
Remembering Howie0
Visual methods and migration: methodological advantages using documentary in the field0
The human shutter: photographs, stereoscopic depth, and moving images0
Visuality and Parrēsia : Ai Weiwei’s countervisual re-enactment of Alan Kurdi’s image0
Hollywood, McDonald’s and Black Lives Matter: the decrepit face of the American dream0
Resilient rebound: a visual essay on materials science researchers confronting plastic pollution in the post-COVID-19 era0
Will I ever be good enough?0
Media and conflict, co-constitutive reflecting practices0
Editorial0
Engaging young people in architectural research: three visual methods for understanding the impact of the built environment on children’s wellbeing0
Parallel public: experimental art in late east Germany0
Spirit in film: the work of James Ault0
Home office: the places where we worked - a directive sent out to friends, friends-of-friends, and colleagues - March/April 20200
Using visual technology in educational ethnography: Theory, method and the visual0
Shooting occupation: the sociology of visual representation0
The Myths of Myrskylä– Light painting local stories and enhancing empathy for the place0
States of Australia’s agri-environment: visual extractions from degraded landscapes0
Border tunnels: a media theory of the U.S.-Mexico underground0
‘It’s just a comic’ - Or is it? Addressing the past in Rutu Modan’sThe Property0
Beyond the visuality of Western architecture. The Chinese home from inward haven to outward representation0
Sonic signatures: Music, migration and the city at night0
That venerable old temple, 20220
What is an inclusive city? Reconfiguring participation in planning with geospatial photovoice to unpack experiences of urban belonging among marginalised communities0
Unnatural nature – visual, spatial, and temporal contexts controlling our air0
Understanding social critique in graffiti art from a (non-)Western perspective: Chinese students comparing Banksy and Zato through photo-elicitation0
In/human hues: colourisation between photography and film0
Familia, 20180
The Routledge companion to art and disability0
Seeing South Asia: visuals beyond borders0
Short videos as affective contagion: (Un)locked WeChat chatlogs on viral videos0
Self-portrait in the photo booth: self-representation in the selfie era, a Photo-based Educational Research Project0
Urban research in film using walking tours and psychogeographic approaches0
Tidepools: using film-based ethnography to explore Black and Latino students' experience of community college0
Visibilising gentrification-induced displacement: a visual essay on the role of a socially and politically engaged photographic practice in housing activism0
The presence and perceptibility of personal digital data: findings from a participant map drawing method0
Reclaiming vision: looking at Berger’s Ways of Seeing and NASA’s Blue Marble0
Virtual identity construction in translanguaging spaces: unveiling the semiotic power of emojis in Lil Miquela 's Instagram posts0
Homes that house precarity: a visual essay on capturing an eco-dystopian reality0
Nervous systems: Art, systems, and politics since the 1960s0
Editorial0
Facilitating a ‘virtual space’ for social change during the COVID-19 pandemic: working with high-risk population using an arts-informed method0
Guest Editors’ introduction0
From bricoleur to carver – A methodological provocation from video ethnographic inquiry0
The techno-politics of programming vision0
Signs of change: community, collective action, and gentrification in Brooklyn, New York0
Shifting perspectives: exploring the intersection of traditional and digital photography in contemporary artistic practices0
Caution, Police!0
The ‘how’ of anthropology: participant observation in New Guinea and Newfoundland0
The spectacle of the Chinese city: urban atmospheres, the built environment and everyday practices0
Visual reciprocity and #vanlife in the visual commons: Vancouver Island is a VW bus0
Life in the Tapajós National Forest: a harmonious blend of culture and nature0
Images of Childhood: A Visual History from Stone to Screen0
Theoretical, methodological, and ethical proposal to produce critical-liberating cinema: a Freirean perspective0
Pictures of Longing: Photography and the Norwegian-American Migration0
Changing portrayal of women during the late modern period in regards to visual communication design0
Documentary photography as vocation: reflecting on Frank Cancian’s contribution to visual studies0
Polka - Using the Camera as a Research Instrument0
Editors' introduction0
A beautiful ghetto0
Interconnectedness, place and growth: a visual essay on transformative learning0
Collaboratively videoing mobile activities0
Revisiting the Kahn collection: multimodal artificial intelligence and visual patterns of presence and absence in the Archives de la Planète , 1909–19310
Chornobyl visual lexicon: exploring the visual framing of toxic heritage from the point of view of participatory culture0
A feminist rewriting of cartoon captions0
Addressing corruption through visual tools in India: the case of three civil society initiatives and their Facebook pages0
Cold War Camera0
Crisis vision: Race and the cultural production of surveillance0
Performativity and intersemiotic translation in contemporary art: the case of Hong Kong Atlas0
Quiet Spaces: Public Places – visual representation of vulnerable identities0
Metaphoric visual expressions in African art: an iconographical analysis of selected artworks by contemporary visual artists0
Review of Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology0
Camouflaging colonialism: a case study of a NeoColonial Museum0
Kodachrome and the fantasy of colourisation or what time is there?0
Panoptical forms in thriller films0
Building internal reputation in stigmatised neighbourhoods: the use of remote participatory photo mapping0
The value of parenting: gendered time expectations among the Spanish middle class0
Film ethnography and critical consciousness: exploring a community-based action research methodology for Freirean transformation0
Walker Evans: No politics0
Breathing aesthetics0
Notions of the visible and the invisible: visualising the otherness of women with invisible (gynaecological) illness0
Remote justice: a visual essay on the response of the Dutch justice system to the COVID-19 pandemic0
Para/texts for the movie Archie’s Final Project: navigating stigma and profit imperatives to discuss suicide and human connections0
Citizens’ photography: a comparative analysis0
The Aesthetics of Global Protest; Global Activism and Art and Conflict in the 21st Century0
Painting in the 1980s: Reimagining the medium0
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